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I worked off a previous list, and added some of my favorites. I cut the lists off at 3 million in Global rankings. Some of the U.S. listings did not provide a USA ranking for some reason. Some sites, especially blogs, suffer in rankings because some of their traffic is from email readers or news reader feeds.

Alexa describes their metrics as:

"Our global traffic rank is a measure of how a website is doing relative to all other sites on the web over the past 3 months. The rank is calculated using a proprietary methodology that combines a site's estimated average of daily unique visitors and its estimated number of pageviews over the past 3 months. We provide a similar country-specific ranking, which is a measurement of how a website ranks in a particular country relative to other sites over the past month."

I know I have not listed every genealogy website or blog that exists with less than a 3 million Global ranking. I may have missed some that are relatively high ranking. If you have a favorite not on the list, please let me know in a Comment to this post. I will add it if the Global ranking is less than 3 million.

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Randy - Thanks for adding me and thinking of me, although my blog URL has blog. in front of it but you can get there from my home page which you listed. I have a list of the DNA focused blogs I follow here: http://blog.kittycooper.com/other-blogs-and-resources/dna-blogs/

You might check the metrics for DNAgeek, segment-ology, and Lara's jewneology, those are some of my DNA favorites

I think Alexa is weighted toward frequency of posting since I did not see CeCe Moore up there, a must read for DNA people, but she rarely posts at her "your genetic genealogist"

Fascinating! I don't have access to Alexa at this time. How does Alexa count website traffic? (Is genealogycenter.org counted as part of genealogycenter.info? I've only used the former, not the latter, but I see one can access databases from both sites.

Am curious as to nara.gov's ranking. (Do *.gov websites even show up in Alexa?)

Am also curious about state archive websites, especially, say for the colonial states (e.g. http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/ )

For those of us with Danish ancestors, http://ddd.dda.dk/ddd.htm and https://www.sa.dk (Danish Archives) are critical. I'm curious about how those sites rank -- presumably relatively highly in Denmark.

Thanks for your work in putting this together. (Found out about you from Roberta Estes' post on dna-explained.com Very cool!)

Alexa does rank government websites - for instance NARA.gov has 888,000 ranking, and archives.gov has 7,858.

The state archives site like the PA site you listed defaults to the overarching URL, the state.pa.us site so it doesn't separate out the digital archives portion.

dda.dk is ranked 595,000 or so. sa.dk is ranked 327,000. But these are for all of the archives, of which genealogy is only a portion. Thank you for the Denmark links - my grandsons have Danish ancestry and i'm just starting to peruse records.

GenealogyCenter.org has a ranking of 2,420,000, so it's not as high as the .info URL for some reason.

Genealogycenter.org and .info are two different domains. The .org site has information about the Genealogy Center, its events, its blog, etc. The .info site has all of their free searchable databases (with more than 3.4 million records. (I do consulting for them on their databases.)

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